Me going through my recent followers, looking for awesome people to follow back:

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@alice guys with fish and guns?

[thehole@dasforum.org]

@alice right? I even viewed a profile recently where they wrote something along the lines of "mostly noalttext - I don't want to describe my pictures and I don't use ai tools".
What?

[paperposts@masto.paperposts.me]

@alice how do I turn that on?

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@alice that's a super interesting filter option; is that something you did via the web UI or ??

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@flipper in this case it was screenshots of news stories...that are useless when someone can't read all the text on them.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@paperposts in #Moshidon it's under Settings -> Behavior

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@darkuncle here: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116370594103679838

[autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space]

@alice how do you configure that

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@autisticplushy see: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116370594103679838

[autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space]

@alice oh, i don't have moshidon

[scoll@todon.eu]

@alice
(Not adversarial, I swear)

How are we supposed to alt-text a screenshot of a paragraph or two? I always type my alt-text manually.

I'd never post a screenshot of text in any case. But is there a tool for that?

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@Scoll there are plenty of OCR sorts of tools online that'll do that for free. Just be sure to proofread the results before posting.

[thehole@dasforum.org]

@alice @Scoll

I think the default web UI from mastodon does allow to extract text from pictures too

Just checked, yes it does

[geoff_eg@mastodon.social]

@alice I feel the pain so many I follow I don't see at all for the same reason. It makes it hard to enjoy photography and art here sometimes.

[longspeak@chirp.enworld.org]

@alice I have the urge to scour my posts to make sure they're clean.